A he said-Twitter said controversy flared Wednesday after the 2016 world champion Chicago Cubs visited President Donald Trump in the White House, as one Cubs outfielder appeared to slyly extend his middle finger during a group picture in the Oval Office.

In a widely circulated image, the middle finger on the left hand of center fielder Albert Almora Jr. is clearly extended. However, enlarged versions of the image show that the index finger of the left hand is also outside of Almora’s pants pocket, but is barely visible behind the more prominent middle finger.

Almora was quick to deny he made an obscene gesture at the president in the Oval Office.

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“Guys were giving me a hard time about it,” Almora said, “but I pointed out the second finger. We’re all good.”

“Obviously, it’s unfortunate,” Almora said. “I’m getting ready to take a picture and I’m posing there. But you guys know that I would never do that to the president of the United States.

He added: “I respect everybody. It is what it is. We laugh about it now, but there’s definitely two fingers out there.”

To many on Twitter, and some in the media, it did not look that way.

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“A Chicago Cubs outfielder flipped the bird while posing with President Donald Trump during an Oval Office meet-and-greet with the World Series champions on Wednesday,” read the beginning of the Daily Mail’s report on the finger flap.

“I’ve spent the last fifteen minutes trying recreate the specific position of his hand, and to come up with a scenario in which this could have come about accidentally and organically — wrist pinned to the side, ring and pinky fingers retracted, and middle finger clearly edging its index finger counterpart out of the way — and I’ve come up empty. In fact, if I were trying to surreptitiously flip the bird in a formal setting in which flipping the bird were generally considered inappropriate, this looks a lot like how I’d go about doing it!” wrote Jay Willis in GQ.

Prior to the visit, Almora had said he was looking forward to the meeting.

“I just look at it as it’s not every day you get to meet the President of the United States. And in a year I get to meet two,” he told the Chicago Sun-Times, referring to the team’s official January meeting with former President Barack Obama.

Manager Joe Madden said the trip was a voluntary one timed during Chicago’s visit to Washington to play the Nationals. Though not all the players attended, some were enthusiastic about the trip.

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“I’m going because it’s the United States of America, and I’d rather not live anywhere else except this country,” said first baseman Anthony Rizzo.

“It’s an honor. No political ties. It’s the White House.”

During the visit, Trump was given a Cubs jersey with a “45” on it to denote that he is the 45th U.S. president.